The Chhota Ghallughara ( ) was a massacre of a significant proportion of the Sikh population especially by the invading Pashtun people of the Durrani Empire during the waning years of the Mughal Empire. Chhota Ghallughara is Punjabi for "Lesser Massacre". As such, it is distinguished from the Vadda Ghallughara"the great massacre of 1762. An estimated 7000 Sikhs died in these attacks.